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ˋFuenteovejuna´ opens the new series in October and it ends in June 2023 with the symphonic poem `Tannhäuserˊ

The Council of Tenerife is presenting the new season at the Tenerife Opera, where justice, vengeance and passion star in the proposals. The details of the seven titles, which begin in October 2022 and run until June 2023, were provided by the vice-president and councillor for Culture of the Council of Tenerife, Enrique Arriaga, and the island director of Culture, Alejandro Krawietz.

The island’s Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga explained that "the commitment to an offer that mixes contemporary titles with proposals from classical composers has been maintained, thus making it possible to reach all audiences, from complete beginners to absolute purists, also including our tourists, who really value our cultural offer”. “It is important for us that the audience continues to grow and that is why we are continuing the Family Opera programme, where titles are adapted for the youngest audiences" stated the councillor who emphasised a maxim of his department. “Culture is safe and necessary”.

Alejandro Krawietz recalled that "in the season that has just ended we began to open a line of searching in the contemporary opera scene in order to bring citizens closer to different ways of staging classical titles as well as the contemporary languages of current works”. The new season continues in that vein, with "the objective of Tenerife Opera to begin to include a wide range of opera expression" according to the island director.

This new offer includes the productions Fuenteovejuna, Un ballo in maschera, The old maid and the thief, Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), The little sweep and the symphonic poem Tannhäuser, as well as the traditional opera gala that brings together seven artists around the figure of Nancy Fabiola Herrera. 

The season begins with Fuenteovejuna, by Jorge Muñiz, a contemporary opera in Spanish with a libretto by Javier Almuzara, that will take place on 18, 20 and 22 October in the Symphony Hall. This opera, in three acts, premièred in Asturias in 2018 and is the product of a commission by the Opera of Oviedo to the composer to celebrate the 400^th year anniversary of the creation of Lope de Vega´s work, one of the most outstanding texts of the Spanish Golden Age. The musical direction is provided by Santiago Serrate and the stage direction is by Miguel del Arco. The cast is formed by María Miró, Antonio Gandía, Felipe Bou, Luis Cansino, David Astorga, Isabella Gaudí, Belén Elvira and Fernando Latorre.

The classic Giuseppe Verdi features in the second proposal of the season: Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball). It is a co-production between the Auditorio de Tenerife and the Teatro Regio di Parma, which will be staged on 22, 24 and 26 November. Alessandro d'Agostini and Marina Bianchi are in charge of musical and stage direction, respectively. José Bros, Sergey Kaydalov, Monica Zanettin, Enkeledja Shkoza and Sofía Esparza form the cast that recounts the assassination of King Gustav of Sweden at a masked ball at the hands of a gentleman from the court.

The opera gala this season revolves around the figure of the mezzosoprano Nancy Fabiola Herrera, who has brought together a series of guests at the Auditorio de Tenerife to celebrate 25 years since her debut in the leading role in Carmen. On 10 December, the Symphony Hall will have Yolanda Auyanet, Liping Zhang, Rubén Amoretti, Ramón Vargas, José Carbó, Leonel Gasso and María del Mar Moreno, under the musical direction of José Miguel Pérez-Sierra.

The first title of 2023 will be performed on 21, 22, 28 and 29 of January and will be the revival of the chamber opera The old maid and the thief, which the Tenerife Opera premièred in Spain in January. It is a work commissioned by the American radio station NBC to the musician Gian Carlo Menotti, who also wrote the libretto. It premièred in 1939 on the radio with great success and later Menotti produced an adaptation to stage it, which took place for the first time in Philadelphia in 1941. The musical direction of this production will be under Javier Lanis, with stage direction by Alicia Peraza. The cast of four singers is formed by Silvia Zorita, Fernando Campero, Candelaria González and Estefanía Perdomo, who share the stage with the actors Javier Socorro and Joel Hernández, and the stage manager Luis López Tejedor. 

On 7, 9 and 11 March, the opera Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), the most emblematic work by the Austrian composer Alexander von Zemlinsky will come to the Auditorio de Tenerife for the very first time. The operas of Lille, Rennes, the Royaumont Foundation and the Theatre of Caen are producing this production in which the Princess of Spain receives a dwarf among her birthday gifts. Alessandro Palumbo and Daniel Jeanneteau are responsible for musical and stage direction, respectively, and Mojca Erdmann, Beatriz Díaz, Phillip Jekal Dmitry Golovnin and Nina Solodovnikova star in the leading roles.

This season it is offering The little sweep as an opera proposal for the entire family. On 15 and 16 April this production by the Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena will be staged with a cast formed by Carmen Mateo, Ramiro Maturana, Mar Campo, César Arrieta and Laura del Río, under the musical direction of Maya Barsacq and with Stefano Monti as stage director.

The 2022-2023 series of the Tenerife Opera will conclude with the symphonic poem in three movements for choir and orchestra, Tannhäuser, a work by Pedro Halffter that took inspiration from the opera of the same name by Richard Wagner. It will be Halffter himself who returns to the Auditorio de Tenerife as musical director on the nights of 9 and 10 June.

As usual, the Sinfónica de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra) will provide the music in all the productions, except for the chamber opera, which will be performed by Javier Lanis on the piano. Once again this year, the Opera Choir of Tenerife will also have a key role in the season.

The season pass campaign begins today for the renewal of 2019-2020 pass holders, who have a preferential period until 31 May. June 7 marks the opening of the period for people wishing to join the Opera Club, while individual tickets will go on sale on July 7.

Prices of the Opera Club pass start at 100 Euros and it provides a 20 percent discount on the cost of tickets. Pass holders who get a new member to join the club will have an additional 10 percent discount. There is also a discounted pass for members of large families (-30%) and the offer continues for young people under the age of 30, who can enjoy the five products -all of them, except the chamber and family operas- for 20 Euros, that is to say, four Euros per title.

This Saturday [7 May], the Auditorio de Tenerife hosts the performance of a Chamber Music Trio and different Percussion Groups

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by its island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. In collaboration with the Professional Music Conservatoire of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the auditorium offers a concert with professional education pupils from the Conservatoire. The concert of a Chamber Music Trio and different Percussion Groups takes place on Saturday [7 May] in the Chamber Hall at 06:00 p.m. 

The concert program will begin with the Chamber Music Trio, formed by Diego Abreu Socas (trombone), 6^th year professional pupil, Jennifer Fernández Díaz (french horn), 5^th year professional pupil, Diego Luis Regalado (trumpet), 4th year professional pupil and their teacher, Cristian Suárez Guerra. They will perform works by Oskar Böhm and Jurij Nascimben. 

Next, the Percussion Groups will perform a repertoire with works by William Schinstine, Johann Strauss, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Medina y Domenech, Paul Smadbeck, Darios Milhaud and Benito Cabrera. The teachers of the percussion pupils are Emilio Díaz, Javier Rodríguez, Verónica Cagigao and Pedro Torrejón.

The Professional Music Conservatoire of Santa Cruz de Tenerife encourages the participation among pupils in motivational activities outside the scope of the centre, such as these annual concerts at the Auditorio de Tenerife.

Tickets for free are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com , at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m.

The guitar player Pablo Sáinz-Villegas is making his debut on the island with the work by the maestro Joaquin Rodrigo 

The guitarist from La Rioja, Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, will make his debut in the season of the Symphonic Orchestra of Tenerife in the performance of the work El concierto de Aranjuez, by Joaquin Rodrigo. The new event by the group of the Island Council will be this Friday [6] at 07:30 p.m., with a programme that also includes the overture of the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila, by Glinka, and Symphony No.4 by Tchaikovsky and the Brit Alexander Shelley conducting.

El concierto de Aranjuez is a work composed during the Spanish Civil War and its second movement, Adagio, has been covered by artists from the world of pop, rock, jazz (Carlos Santana, Chick Corea and Miles Davis, among others) as well as the version that Richard Anthony created for voice, whose melody has been performed by melodic and opera singers such as Plácido Domingo, Josep Carreras, Lola Flores, Montserrat Caballé and Amália Rodrigues. It has also been used in films and television advertisements. 

The evening is getting underway with the overture of the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila. This is a chance to listen to a work by Mikhail Glinka, a composer with a limited presence on the regular programmes of auditoriums, despite being a benchmark for later composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky. The music offered by the Symphonic Orchestra in Tenerife is based on texts by the poet Pushkin and with a clear Italian inspiration.

The second part of the concert will allow us to enjoy Symphony No.4 by Tchaikovsky, which moves between the melancholy and joy that characterised the composer during the creation of this work. His unease is reflected in the first movement, but over the course of the symphony his state of mind gradually improves, ending with the triumphant pursuit of happiness.

Since his debut at the Lincoln Center with the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York, Pablo Sáinz-Villegas has become a benchmark of contemporary symphonic guitar, playing with directors and orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestras of Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Toronto, Israel and the National Orchestra of Spain and performing in historic halls such as the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has performed several global premières, including the first work written for guitar by John Williams.

Pablo Sáinz-Villegas played the piece he is performing this week with the Berlin Philharmonic and its conductor, Kirill Petrenko, on the occasion of the New Year concert. The guitarist from La Rioja has received more than thirty international awards including the Andrés Segovia, the Rioja Arts Award the Ojo Crítico Award from RNE and the Trelles Villademoros Award given by the Royal Corps of Nobility of the Principality of Asturias. 

Alexander Shelley has conducted the world´s best orchestras across the six continents, notably including the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Philharmonic Orchestras of Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Malaysia as well as the Symphony Orchestras of Sao Paulo, Houston, Montreal, Toronto, Munich, Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney and New Zealand.

In September 2015, Alexander Shelley replaced Pinchas Zukerman as musical director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada. Together, they have gone on important tours around Canada and Europe, have launched innovative projects, released several award winning albums at the JUNO Awards and, more recently, they have responded to social justice problems and issues deriving from the pandemic with the 'NACOLive' and 'UnDisrupted' series’.

Since January 2015, he has been the principal associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, with which he directs an annual series of concerts at Cadogan Hall and he goes on national and international tours. In August 2017, he concluded his eight-year period as chief conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.

For Alexander, it has always been and remains crucial to serve as a source of inspiration for future generations of musicians and fans of classical music, and he does so through his work as founder and artistic director of the Schumann Camerata and its innovative "440Hz" series in Düsseldorf and with his regular tours conducting the National Youth Orchestra of Germany.

The tickets for the concert in the Auditorio de Tenerife can be purchased on the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, at the auditorium's box office and by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The family show ‘Malebable’ by Helena Lizari will take place this Friday, and the performance ‘Leira’ by Nova Galega de Danza next Sunday.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by the island's Minister of Culture Enrique Arriaga. It is scheduling two dance shows for this week. The first, Malebable, was created for children aged 0 to 5 and it will take place this Friday [6 May] in the Chamber Hall at 05:00 p.m., while Leira, winner of a Max Award, will be on at the Symphony Hall this Sunday [8 May] at 07:30 p.m.

Malebable is a sensory movement show that stimulates the imagination of children. The body and objects dance together creating a series of poetic images, an adventure of perception through textures, touch. It is a journey through sensations, the senses. The concept and the direction of this children´s proposal is by Helena Lizari, dancer, choreographer, a movement and psychomotricity teacher with a degree in theories and analysis of movement. 

Tickets for Malebable can be purchased at a single price of €5 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. Children who have not reached the age of two on the day of the show will not need to purchase a ticket if they are not going to occupy a seat. 

Leira has been a finalist for the Best Dance Show 2021 and winner of Best Male Dance Performer at the 2 XXIV Max Awards for Performing Arts. The body and the earth strengthen their ties in this dance and music show that transports the viewer to the harsh beauty of fieldwork. The woman is at the centre of this telluric connection, repeated day after day in a never-ending succession of seasons. The sun and the rain, the wind and the landscapes <will be> inhabited solely by a human choreography of farming implements, of bodies that carry loads and drag loads, that dance among the furrows ploughed in the earth.

Leira is also the simple joy of work done with one's hands, with the courage that comes from the body and returns to the body; the celebration of a timeless and magical Galicia. Nova Galega de Danza is the result of a process that began in 1998 when the dancers Vicente Colomer and Jaime P. Díaz reached their artistic and professional maturity and decided to combine their efforts. They searched for new forms of expression that blend the Galician folk tradition with contemporary dance.

Tickets for Leira can be purchased at a single price of €8 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. There are special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

Both shows are part of the program of FAM Primavera 2022 and they come alongside the artistic circuit supported by the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM) and developed by the Spanish Network of Theatres: Danza a Escena 2022 The offer of FAM concludes on 14 May at 07:30 a.m. in the outside area of the Auditorio de Tenerife with three outdoor dance shows from the state programme Acieloabierto: Träd by Lamajara Collective; Am I what? by Elvi Balboa, and Du@l by Juan Carlos Avecilla.

This Sunday's concert [May 1^st] is part of the ‘Primavera Musical’ cycle

The Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council, is managed by its island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. This Sunday [1 May] at 11:30 a.m., the Auditorio de Tenerife is hosting a new concert in the Chamber Hall from the series Primavera Musical (Spring Music). This time it will involve the participation of the brass bands XIX de Marzo from San José (San Juan de la Rambla), San Miguel de Abona and La Filarmónica, from Los Realejos. The cycle Primavera Musical is an initiative by the federation 'Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música' and the collaboration of Tenerife Island Council.

The brass band from San Juan de la Rambla will be the first to perform and, under the direction of Damián González, will perform three songs. Their repertoire will get underway with the pasodoble La Giralda, by Eduardo López, before continuing with Adagio in A major with clarinet, by Mozart, where Janet Felipe will be the soloist and it will conclude with a mix of the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven and Mambo by Pérez Prado.

The brass band from San Miguel de Abona is coming to the Auditorium of Tenerife with the direction of Marvin Federico Martín to perform the pasodoble Santiago Mestre, by Óscar Navarro, La Veu de la tuba, by Ferrer Ferrán, where the soloist will be Silvano Fernando Amador, and Santana, a portrait with arrangements by Giancarlo Gazzani of different songs by Carlos Santana.

The concert will end with the participation of the Philharmonic Society of Los Realejos, where Adán Pérez will conduct the band in a programme that will begin with El fallero, by José Serrano; Selections from Grease, with arrangements by Ted Ricketts, and they will end with a mixture of Latin songs, with arrangements by Iwai, Cubas and Myokoin.

‘La danse du soleilˊ is staged with 31 moving musicians and two dancers, under the direction of David Greilsammer.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by the island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. The Auditorio de Tenerife presents La danse du soleil, a show by Geneva Camerata. The Swiss orchestra performs an original staging of two well-known works by Mozart and Lully with the Spanish dancers Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola and Martí Corbera. It takes place on Monday [2 May] at 6:00 pm at the Symphony Hall.

Chosen by the New York Times as "one of the best performances in the world of classical music", La danse du soleilpresents a hypnotic and amazing journey between music and dance, revealing an ode to life, hope, loss and love. 

On stage, thirty-one musicians directed by the Israeli David Greilsammer move while they play masterpieces alongside choreography by the renowned Díaz de Garaio Esnaola. Together with Martí Corbera, they will perform an unforgettable, impressive and emotive show. This show has rarely been seen in its version with two dancers, and the Tenerife date is one of the special ones on this tour.

On a musical level, the programme that the orchestra will perform will be formed by an orchestral suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) and by the popular Symphony No. 40 in G minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), which will close the show after a short interlude.

Audacious, innovative and adventurous, the Geneva Camerata is formed by the most brilliant and creative soloists of the young generation. Praised by the press as one of the world's most captivating and unique groups, Geneva Camerata performs music from all periods and of all styles, from baroque to contemporary, electronic, jazz, rock and world music. It also creates eclectic multidisciplinary projects that bring together music, dance, theatre and visual arts.

David Greilsammer, conductor and pianist, is known for his eclectic and fascinating programmes as well as his Mozartian repertoire. He is considered one of today's most daring and adventurous classical artists.

The Basque choreographer, dancer, composer and director Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola shows in his work his interest in combining his musical and dance training. He relentlessly explores the relationship between both disciplines and questions the role and integration of music in the theatrical-performance event.

Barcelona performer Martí Corbera has danced on some of the world's most important stages and festivals. Corbera's intense collaboration with Díaz de Garaio Esnaola began at the Bienal de Flamenco in Seville. Since then, both artists have collaborated on several contemporary dance projects, such as the work Flamencolorquiano, presented at the Granada Festival 2019.

Tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There are special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

This performance is starred by the US-Singer Madeline Bell and her Quartet, preceded by the Norwegian pianist Norvald Dahl.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by its island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. On Saturday [30th] at 07.30 p.m. it celebrates the International Jazz Day with a concert in the Chamber Hall by the Madeline Bell Quartet, preceded by the pianist Norvald Dahl.

Madeline Bell, originally from New Jersey, USA, began her love affair with music in the choir of her church, always keeping with the influence of gospel. She began to tour when she was young and one musical -Black Christmas- brought her to Europe, where she decided to stay. In London during the late sixties, she started collaborating with the popular singer Dusty Springfield and, in very little time, she managed to record solo and become appreciated by many of the great British pop and rock stars of the time.

With her velvety voice, she was the leader of the mythical band Blue Mink, in which the guitarist Alan Parker played along with bassist Herby Flowers and percussionist Ray Cooper - and her list of collaborations as a backing vocalist on different artists' albums is very extensive, ranging from the Stones themselves to Joe Cocker, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer or Elton John. She is currently working with some of the best European big bands and is a frequent patron of the mythical Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club of London.

The Madeline Bell Quartet is made up of the American singer whose name it bears, Andrés Litwin on the drums, Francis Posé on the double bass, and David Lenker on the piano. The saxophonist from Tenerife Kike Perdomo will play as a guest artist.

The Norwegian piano player and composer Norvald Dahl is making his way to the international jazz scene with his solo piano- project Flying High. His music, influenced by contemporary composers and Norwegian folk music, is experimental, melodic, expressive and at times hypnotic. On this occasion, Dahl will present some of his solo material in addition to some freshly composed music! There will also be a small duo session with Perdomo.

Dahl grew up in a family surrounded with folk music. His grandfather, a black smith and a fiddler, was also a composer. At the age of five, Dahl started improvising on the piano. He soon took up classical training, but after a few years he found blues, jazz, and improvisation more to his liking. Dahl has been involved in many international projects, being his latest project the piano trio Pandemic Solution he recently toured with in Norway. 

In November 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially designated 30 April as International Jazz Day.  It wanted to highlight jazz and its diplomatic function of bringing people together in all corners of the world. Thousands of concerts are held on this day in honour of this charismatic musical genre, which every year is joined by the concert programmed in the Auditorio de Tenerife.

Tickets can be purchased at a general price of 10 Euros on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There are special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

El trompetista venezolano participará en el concierto de este viernes, que será dirigido por Christian Vásquez

La Sinfónica de Tenerife, proyecto que depende del área de Cultura del Cabildo que gestiona el consejero Enrique Arriaga, afronta esta semana el estreno mundial de la obra Albares, concerto para fliscorno y orquesta, del venezolano Pacho Flores, que estará en la isla como solista de esta pieza acompañando a la formación del Cabildo en un programa que, bajo la dirección de su compatriota Christian Vásquez, también incluye Danzas latinas, concierto para trompeta y orquesta, de Efraín Oscher, y la Sinfonía nº5, de Piotr Chaikovski. La cita será este viernes [día 29] a las 19:30 horas en la Sala Sinfónica.

Para la interpretación de Albares, Flores recurre a una familia de fliscornos con el siguiente desarrollo que explica el compositor en el programa del concierto. “Para el primer movimiento [Bambuco en Valencia] he utilizado un fliscorno en Do. Aquí he querido representar un bambuco, baile muy popular en Colombia y los Andes venezolanos. Para el segundo [Milonga en Mislata] he utilizado un fliscorno grave en La, con una nostálgica milonga, género maravilloso de perfume rioplatense, típico en Argentina y Uruguay. El tercer movimiento [Periquera en Navajas] es una periquera, una suerte de joropo típico de los llanos venezolanos y parte de los llanos colombianos, que representa alegría y fiesta”.

Pacho Flores también será el protagonista en la primera pieza del concierto, compuesta por el uruguayo Efraín Oscher (Montevideo, 1974), quien la creó para celebrar sus diez años de colaboración con el trompetista venezolano. Esta obra fue un encargo realizado por la Real Filharmonía de Galicia que se estrenó en noviembre de 2019 en Santiago de Compostela y que interpreta por primera vez la Sinfónica de Tenerife.

La obra está compuesta de cinco danzas y cada una de ellas es ejecutada con un instrumento distinto, alguno construido especialmente para Flores: Bomba de Puerto Rico con corneta en mi bemol, Zamba de Argentina con fliscorno, Samba de Brasil con trompeta en do, Bembé de Cuba con trompeta en re y Milonga del Uruguay con corneta en fa.

La segunda parte del concierto de este viernes se dedica a la Sinfonía nº5 de Chaikovski, una obra que, junto a la Sexta -conocida como la Patética- constituyen lo mejor del pensamiento sinfónico del compositor. La Quinta transmite una cierta tendencia a una blanda sensualidad y en ella el autor se posiciona como el portavoz del mal del siglo, del pesimismo romántico que suaviza con fases más cordiales en los que se manifiesta la influencia del italianismo musical.

El solista en el concierto de esta semana de la Sinfónica de Tenerife ha obtenido el primer premio de los concursos Maurice André, Philip Jones y Cittá di Porcia. Formado en “El Sistema”, Pacho Flores ha ofrecido recitales en Carnegie Hall, Sala Pleyel de París o Opera City de Tokio. Como miembro fundador del Quinteto de Metales Simón Bolívar ha participado en numerosas giras por Europa, Sudamérica, Estados Unidos y Japón.

Actúa regularmente con orquestas como la Arctic Philharmonic, Philharmonie Salzburg, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Tucson Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orquesta de Stavanger, Orquesta NHK de Japón, Nacional de México, Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, San Diego Symphony, Nacional de la Radio de Polonia, Sinfónica del Estado de São Paulo, ORTVE, Real Filharmonía de Galicia y Simón Bolívar de Venezuela.

Trabajó con maestros como Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, Seiji Ozawa, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Frühbeck de Burgos, Gustavo Dudamel o Hernández-Silva. Es director fundador de la Academia Latinoamericana de Trompeta e invitado frecuente de conservatorios de todo el mundo, así como jurado invitado en concursos internacionales.

Christian Vásquez es director musical de la Orquesta Sinfónica Teresa Carreño de Venezuela, a la que dirigió en una notable gira por Europa que los llevó a Londres, Lisboa, Toulouse, Múnich, Estocolmo y Estambul. Ha sido director titular de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Stavanger entre 2013 y 2019 y principal director invitado de la Het Gelders Orkest de 2015 a 2020, cargo que inició con un programa latino en una gira por los Países Bajos.

Tras su debut con la Orquesta Sinfónica de Gävle en octubre de 2009, Christian Vásquez fue nombrado su principal director invitado entre 2010 y 2013. Ha trabajado con la Philharmonia Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Sinfónica de la Radio de Viena, Camerata de Salzburgo, Sinfónica Estatal de Rusia, Filarmónica de Tokyo o Sinfónica de Singapur. En Norteamérica ha dirigido la National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa) y la Filarmónica de Los Ángeles, durante su participación en el Young Artist Fellowship Programme.

Desde entonces ha dirigido orquestas como la Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Sinfónica de Galicia, Berlin Konzerthausorchester, Sinfónica de la Radio de Praga, Festival Beethoven de Varsovia, Filarmónica de Turku, Sinfónica de la Radio de Praga, Filarmónica de Poznan, Sinfónica de New Jersey, Filarmónica de Helsinki, Nacional de México, Filarmónica de Rotterdam, Sinfónica de Basilea, Filarmónica de Múnich, Nacional de Estonia, Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Orquesta de la Radio de Noruega o Nacional de la RTE de Irlanda. Su primer compromiso operístico en Europa fue en la Ópera de Noruega con Carmen.

Las entradas para el concierto en el Auditorio de Tenerife se pueden adquirir en www.sinfonicadetenerife.es<http://www.sinfonicadetenerife.es>, en la taquilla del propio recinto cultural del Cabildo y de forma telefónica en el 902 317 327, de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 17:00 horas, y sábados, de 10:00 a 14:00 horas.

Las formaciones que participan son Ernesto Beteta (Santa Úrsula), Santísimo Cristo del Calvario (El Tanque) y Amigos del Arte (Güímar)

El Auditorio de Tenerife, espacio que depende del área de Cultura del Cabildo que dirige el consejero Enrique Arriaga, acoge este domingo [día 24], a partir de las 11:30 horas, un concierto del ciclo Primavera Musical, que contará en la Sala de Cámara con la participación de las agrupaciones Amigos del Arte (Güímar), Ernesto Beteta (Santa Úrsula) y Santísimo Cristo del Calvario (El Tanque). Primavera Musical es una iniciativa que organiza la Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música con la colaboración del Cabildo Insular desde el año 2005.

El concierto arranca con la formación Amigos del Arte, de Güímar, que, dirigida por Benigno González, comenzarán su actuación con el pasodoble El relicario, de José Padilla, para continuar con la obertura de Where Eagles Soar, de Steven Reineke, El bolero de Ravel, de Maurice Ravel, y concluirá con Omens of love, de Hirotaka Izumi, con arreglos de Tohio Mashima.

La Banda de Música Ernesto Beteta, de Santa Úrsula, participará en esta edición de Primavera Musical bajo la dirección de Miguel Ángel Expósito y con un programa que incluye Música y vinos, de Manuel Morales; Sedona, de Steve Reineke, y Cassiopeia, de Carlos Marques.

La tercera formación que protagoniza el concierto de este domingo es la Agrupación Musical Santísimo Cristo del Calvario, que llega al Auditorio de Tenerife bajo la dirección de José Eduardo Morales para interpretar Fiesta en El Tanque, con arreglos de David Morales; un popurrí de Rapunzel, y concluirán con Los vengadores, de Alan Silvestri con arreglos de Michael Brown.

Dieciocho colectivos participan en esta propuesta familiar de Auditorio de Tenerife, que se abre al público este fin de semana

El Auditorio de Tenerife acogió hoy la función socioeducativa de la ópera en familia Les contes d’Hoffmann (Los cuentos de Hoffmann), que reunió a más de 850 personas de dieciocho colectivos en la Sala Sinfónica, escenario que se transformó en un circo. Esta actividad, que constituye un ensayo general de las funciones que ofrecerán al público el sábado y el domingo, se incluye dentro de la propuesta de Ópera de Tenerife, que en esta ocasión recupera la obra de Jacques Offenbach adaptada para toda la familia e ideal para los adultos que quieran introducirse en el mundo de la lírica.

Los escolares que han participado en esta actividad proceden de las Escuelas Pías, los CEIP Tomé Cano, San Fernando y Antonio del Valle Menéndez, y los IES El Sobradillo, Tomás de Iriarte, Viera y Clavijo, El Tanque, San Andrés, Domingo Pérez Minik, Canarias, Teobaldo Power, Magallanes, Benito Pérez Armas y La Guancha. También asistieron delegaciones procedentes del Centro de Educación para Adultos Farola de Santa Cruz, del Centro Ocupacional Andrés Llarena y el CAMP La Cuesta.

Los alumnos que proceden de los ciclos de sonido, iluminación y realización del IES La Guancha asistieron después de la función a una charla por parte del equipo técnico de Ópera de Tenerife y a una visita práctica que les ha acercado a sus futuras profesiones.

Todos estos colectivos recibieron previamente una guía didáctica elaborada por el Área Educativa y Social de Auditorio de Tenerife, que le permitió a los asistentes prepararse y acercarse a los detalles de esta versión adaptada para todo tipo de públicos que transforma a Hoffmann en un maestro de ceremonias circense que repasa todas las historias rocambolescas que ha vivido en el pasado y que le llevan a plantearse el cierre del negocio. Una hechicera hechizada, una muñeca fuera de control y una equilibrista insegura protagonizan estos cuentos en los que un ser maligno se las apaña para fastidiar al señor Hoffmann. Durante la función, los asistentes recibieron unas gafas para ver en tres dimensiones.

Esta propuesta de Les contes d’Hoffmann es una reposición de esta producción de Auditorio de Tenerife estrenada en 2017, que vuelve con la dirección musical de Rubén Díez, al frente de la Sinfónica de Tenerife, y Raúl Vázquez en la dirección de escena y escenografía. El equipo del artífice de esta adaptación se completa con un colorido vestuario que corre a cargo de Leo Martínez y una mágica iluminación que lleva la firma de Miguel Ponce.

Compositor prolífico, Offenbach llegó a escribir 102 obras escénicas, entre las que sobresale Les contes d’Hoffmann, que le ocupó los últimos años de su vida sin poder verla concluida. Se basó para ella en la obra Les contes fantastiques d'Hoffmann que habían escrito el que luego sería libretista de la ópera, Jules Barbier, y el escritor con el que firmó a cuatro manos tantos libretos, Michel Carré.

El elenco lo integran las sopranos Maria Rita Combattelli, Elvira Padrino e Inés Lorans, la mezzosoprano Daniela Prado, el barítono Jacobo Ochoa y los tenores César Arrieta y David Astorga, este último en el papel de Hoffmann.

 Two versions of this medieval sequence take place in the Chamber Hall on the 21st of April at 7:30 p.m.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island's Council that is managed by its island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. Next week the venue has programmed the concert De Umbrarum (From the shadows) to pay tribute to Stabat Mater. The chamber ensemble El Afecto Ilustrado, the countertenor Carlos Mena and the soprano Jone Martínez, both from the Basque country, feature this Thursday, the 21^st of April at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium’s Chamber Hall.

This program is formed by two works that are intimately linked to one another. They deal with the sorrow associated with the Virgin Mary at the Passion and Death of her son, following the pattern of the very famous medieval sequence of the Stabat Mater Dolorosa. The works are Stabat Mater by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) and the one by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736). These two works follow one another immediately on a timeline and were commissioned by the same body, the Confraternità dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo.

This historical fact turns the programme into a special gathering of both works in the form of an altarpiece, which is an opportunity to address two spiritual meditations on a single theme, with the same aim, and with rhetorical devices that are similar but not the same. These works are composed by two different characters creating a musical discourse on one of the Marian passages that have given rise to the most artistic activity over time.

The Stabat Mater genre led to the ardent artistic imagination of the Baroque period, not only in music but also in almost all artistic disciplines. Scarlatti (1660-1725) composed his famous work in 1724, a year before his death, for the Friday of Sorrows celebrations in Naples. The Sicilian author proposes eighteen movements with impeccable rhetoric. We are dealing with a piece devised for two singers, two violins and basso continuo, with simple lines, but enormous expressive power.

Pergolesi (1710-1736) composed his famous Stabat Mater a few months before his death, as a commission from the same Neapolitan brotherhood to replace that of Scarlatti, which was considered too outdated for the masses devoted to Our Lady of Sorrows. The work immediately became so famous that a large number of creators such as Johann Sebastian Bach produced adaptations or used its themes as parts or bases for new compositions.

Figures such as Jean Jacques Rousseau offered glowing praise for its famous beginning, and it soon became the great musical success of its time, despite the short life of its creator. By adding a viola part to the ensemble presented by Scarlatti, the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi attains exquisite expressiveness and drama, which are a true paradigm of the rhetorical mechanism of the era. Structured around only 12 movements, the level of lyricism is truly spectacular.

El Afecto Ilustrado was created in 2012, devised as an innovative and versatile chamber group, with the philosophy of presenting and bringing the public closer to a historically informed performance of the repertoire encompassing the early Baroque and the earliest Romantic era, in a close and tangible way. The ensemble members are Adrián Linares, concertmaster and direction; Vadym Makarenko, baroque violin; Víctor Gil, baroque viola; Diego Armando Pérez, baroque violoncello; Ventura Rico, violone; Carlos Oramas, theorbo, and Raquel García, organ.

The tickets can be purchased on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the Auditorium's box office located in the building’s hall from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m and by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 during the same schedules. There are special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families.

The performances take place next week

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural venue linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island's Council that is managed by its island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. Now, it presents Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann). The Symphony Hall will be transformed into a large and colourful circus, offering two performances of this opera by Jacques Offenbach on the 23^rd and 24^th of April. It is adapted for all audiences and is ideal for those adults who want to get introduced to the world of opera. 

This adapted version for all audiences transforms Hoffmann into a circus ringmaster who looks back at all the far-fetched stories he has experienced in the past and that have led him to consider closing the business. A bewitched witch, a doll that is out of control and an unsteady tightrope walker star in these stories where an evil force is working to torment Mr Hoffmann. This fun experience is completed by three-dimensional glasses that will be handed out to the audience.

Les contes d’Hoffmann is a revival of this production by the Auditorio de Tenerife which premièred in 2017. It returns with the musical direction of Rubén Díez, conducting the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and Raúl Vázquez in charge of staging and scene design. The equipment to craft this adaptation is completed with colourful costumes by Leo Martínez and magical lighting provided by Miguel Ponce.

The prolific composer Offenbach wrote 102 stage works, notably including “The Tales of Hoffmann”, which he spent the last years of his life working on without being able to see the finished work. To do so, he based the project on the work Les contes fantastiques d'Hoffmann which was written by the man who would go on to become an opera librettist, Jules Barbier, and the writer with whom he wrote many librettos together, Michel Carré. 

Hoffmann is none other than Ernst Theodore Amadeus, E. T. A., Hoffmann, one of the leading exponents of romanticism in German literature. Barbier and Carré chose three of the fairy tales by the Prussian writer relating to the pursuit of impossible love for the representation of work in the Odéon Theatre in Paris in 1851, which Offenbach had seen and which he drew inspiration from. 

The cast will be led by the tenor David Astorga as Hoffmann. The sopranos Maria Rita Combattelli, Elvira Padrino and Inés Lorans, the mezzo-soprano Daniela Prado, the tenor César Arrieta and the baritone Jacobo Ochoa complete the list of singers who bring to life the fun characters surrounding the story of the protagonist.

Saturday's performance (23 April) takes place at 6:00 p.m., while Sunday's performance (24 April) is a morning session that starts at 12:00 noon. The tickets are sold at a general price of 10 Euro, a price to which special discounts for the unemployed (50%), large families (25%), season ticket holders (15%) and audience under 30 years of age (5 Euro) are applicable. 

The tickets available on the website are already sold out. The last available tickets are on sale at the ticket office from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 during the same schedules. By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat COVID-19, such as the correct use of masks. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on the Auditorium's website.